Notes to Chapter 1174 Pages 363–4. The second edition also informs the incredulous just where to find Pamela’s
prayer in the Arcadia and which of the king’s prayers plagiarizes it: his “Prayer in time
of Captivity.” For the controversy surrounding these prayers, see note 55.
175 Likening himself to Zerubbabel whose praise of Truth freed the Israelites from the
Babylonian captivity, he hopes his praise of Justice might “set free the minds of English
men from longing to returne poorly under that Captivity of Kings, from which the
strength and supreme Sword of Justice hath deliverd them” (583–5).
176 CPW III, 488, 601. See Loewenstein, Milton and the Drama of History, 71.
177 Norbrook, Writing the English Republic, 208–9.
178 CPW IV.1, 316, 319, 323, 324, 325, 335, 339, 406, 426, 450, 514, 527.
179 CPW IV.1, 308–10, 313–14, 449. Salmasius’s title page bore the phrase Sumptibus
Regiis, “at the king’s expense,” which may simply have been an effort to protect it by
linking with the king’s name. Salmasius denied receiving a reward, but the rumor (and
the supposed amount) was often repeated.
180 For example, if Salmasius “had chosen to read Tacitus himself, instead of copying so
carelessly extracts from any source,” he would know Tacitus to be “a noble writer
most opposed to Tyranny” (443).
181 Milton would also have the Presbyterians take note that Salmasius urged the abolition
of bishops in an earlier treatise but in this work argues that they are necessary (314–15).
182 Page 518. Other examples: “you go abroad seeking to burden others with tyranny, so
at home you labor under the most shameful and unmanly form of slavery” (471);
“You bear in your belly... another papacy, for, as your wife’s wife, a wolf impreg-
nated by a bitch, what else could you bring forth but a monstrosity or some new
papacy” (483); you are not a Balaam but a “talkative ass sat upon by a woman” (534).
183 For Filmer see chapter 7, n. 145.
184 Hobbes’s Humane Nature and De Corpore Politico were published in London in Febru-
ary and May, 1650; their central ideas were crystallized in Leviathan, published in Paris
in 1651.
185 Page 518. Or again, “Only those called Independents knew how to be true to them-
selves until the end and how to use their victory” (511).
Chapter 9 “Tireless... for the Sake of Liberty” 1652–16541 Cyriack Skinner states in his Life of Milton, “The Youths that hee instructed from time
to time served him often as Amanuenses, & some elderly persons were glad, for the
benefit of his learned conversation, to perform that Office” (EL 33). The comment
seems to pertain especially to the period after the Restoration, but was probably true
long before. Only a few of Milton’s amanuenses from 1652–4 have been identified: see
Peter Beal, Index of English Literary Manuscripts, vol. 2, part 2 (London, 1993), 83–6.
Edward Phillips transcribed the letters to Bulstrode Whitelocke and Mylius (February
12 and 13, 1652; see chapter 8, pp. 263–4), and two citations from Machiavelli in the
Commonplace Book, p. 197 (CPW I, 475–7). Cyriack Skinner came to live near
Milton sometime in 1654 and probably began to help him then (see p. 303); later, he
transcribed sonnets XXI and XXII in the Trinity manuscript (TM). Shawcross in ME
41–2 attributes to John Phillips several of Milton’s letters to Mylius, the “Ode toNotes to Chapter 8–9